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The Jerk

FILM—Exceedingly rarely, an ambitious cinematic saga—say, Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather trilogy, or Michael Apted’s Up series—can change the way we think about the world. But perhaps the most poignant film of all is Carl Reiner’s 1979 classic The Jerk
, following Navin R. Johnson (Steve Martin) on a thrilling, heartbreaking passage through this thing we call “life.” Navin’s journey is our journey, and ours is his. EH